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Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can, thank you.

Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)

Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Yesterday's discussion post.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    ·
    2 years ago

    Putin says he’s raising the minimum wage and pensions in Russia by 10% to counter inflation

    Putin does more for the people than my free liberal-democratic GoodCountry government does.

    :doomer:

    • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      in autocracy you cant change the leader but he can change the policy , in democracy you can change the Leaders but they cannot change policy...

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
        ·
        2 years ago

        thought the soviet union failed because they cared about people too much

        I doubt he actually thinks that, it's just a convenient propaganda line. Anyone can tell that the USSR failed because Gorbachev actively flushed it down the toilet.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
            ·
            2 years ago

            :shrug-outta-hecks: It's also possible that Putin is a dumbass idiot and actually thinks that if the USSR was just meaner to its civilians it would still be here.

            • SoyViking [he/him]
              ·
              2 years ago

              Putin doesn't strike me as a dumbass though. He's not a nice person who believes in good stuff but he comes off as intelligent and perceptive.

                • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
                  ·
                  2 years ago

                  All you have to do is see reality for what it is. That's all you have to do.

                  Putin saw what NATO was doing, took the chance, and very likely saw that Europe was dependent on Russia despite all the rhetoric otherwise.

                  US media just prints stories saying "Putin is dying of cancer and a bad man" because if they don't get a supervillain origin story then they might have to contend with reality for once in their lives.

                  Just look at the pushback against Mr Realpolitik himself, Henry Kissinger, when he said a more stable world is one where Ukraine just cedes some territory in exchange for peace.

                  People go nuts because "bad guys" are supposed to be punished. There's supposed to be consequences but the reality is that wielding power means there are no consequences, and Russia wields more power than the West would like to realise.